Gasper (history, Yale U.) traces Egyptian national identity formation from the mid-1870s through the 1910s as a social and political project largely carried out by urban, literate elites. He argues th
Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests—or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and p
Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests—or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and p
